Taylor Swift's new song sounds an awful lot like victim blaming

Taylor Swift, seen in Texas on Feb. 4, 2017, didn't attend Sunday's 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, but at the show, she released her new music video, "Look What You Made Me Do."

Taylor Swift, seen in Texas on Feb. 4, 2017, didn't attend Sunday's 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, but at the show, she released her new music video, "Look What You Made Me Do." (John Salangsang / Invision)

I couldn’t be more disappointed with Taylor Swift even if she’d plagiarized a Michelle Obama speech for her new single.

What was she thinking?

By now you’ve no doubt heard that the pop Goliath released the first single from her forthcoming album, “Reputation.” You may have even read a think piece or nine about it.

I’m writing another one. Because a mere two weeks ago I gushed about Swift’s performance in court, where she proudly, righteously refused to accept responsibility for someone else’s bad behavior.

“I’m not going to let you or your client make me feel in any way that this is my fault,” she told the attorney representing a radio host accused of groping Swift. “Here we are years later, and I’m being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are the product of his decisions — not mine.”

(Preach!)

Then she released a song called “Look What You Made Me Do.”

(Say what?)

I don’t like your little games

Don’t like your tilted stage

The role you made me play

Of the fool, no, I don’t like you

I don’t like your perfect crime

How you laugh when you lie

You said the gun was mine

Isn’t cool, no, I don’t like you

But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time

Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time

I’ve got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined

I check it once, then I check it twice, oh!

Ooh, look what you made me do

Taylor Swift debuted the music video for her new single, "Looks What You Made Me Do," at the 2017 VMA's on August 27.

Taylor Swift debuted the music video for her new single, "Looks What You Made Me Do," at the 2017 VMA's on August 27.

Depending whose think piece you read, the song is either Swift’s latest salvo in her long-running feud with artist Kanye West, an homage to Arya Stark from “Game of Thrones” or a weak attempt at creating a sensation along the lines of Beyonce’s “Lemonade.” (One tweet: “This looks like Lemonade: Crystal Light.”)

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